Today’s Mission
Day 8
Reflection Day
Catch Your Breath
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God.
EXODUS 20:9-10
Well, how did you do this week?
If you’re like us, you may have started out this first week with a passion; you may have jumped right in to the first couple of days with enthusiasm. And then, by day three or four, “life” started happening to you. Maybe your child got sick, or you had a big event to prepare for, or an unhappy parent rented all the extra space you may have had on your schedule or in your brain this week. It just doesn’t take long for normal life and ministry (read: chaos) to wipe out any hope of progress, of structure, of order, does it?
Here’s the good news: today is the day you take a breather from your 30-Day Change project. Hopefully, you’ve already scheduled your next meeting with your prayer partners and won’t be meeting with them today, in order to give you a total break from this project.
This is your sabbath day.
Feel free to reflect on and pray through the questions under Today’s Mission below, or simply wait to talk them through with your prayer partners when you meet in a few days.
Regardless, catch your breath, and rest in the certainty that God is at work when we are not.
Today’s Mission
- What are you most excited about after having worked this process for a week?
- What has been your biggest point of discouragement?
- As you look at the next week, what times have you set aside to focus on the assignments you’ve been given?
- How can your prayer partners be praying for you this week—whether about this thirty-day process or about anything else that you’re experiencing as particularly pressing at this point in your life?